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Re: Pipe characters and screenreaders

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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Dec 4, 2008 11:45AM

Yes, I agree that hearing "vertical bar" over and over would be quite
annoying. One of the things I did in my last corporate contract was remove
all of the pipes and replace them with css borders. My argument was that
they are purely aesthetic objects, therefore they shouldn't be hardcoded
into the page.

I got a lot of resistance, because it's hard to style borders to look the
same as pipes. Had I had this information then, it probably would have been
easier to win the argument. That's why this list is so helpful.


On 12/4/08 10:29 AM, "Moore, Michael" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> JAWS (all versions) says "verticle bar" it can get a bit tedious after a while
> but you learn to tune it out. This character is frequently used to separate
> adjacent links, WCAG 1.0, but is really not necessary with any modern screen
> readers.